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Fastmail offers an automated Google Contacts [import feature][import], and also supports importing contacts by CSV and vCard. Unfortunately, I've noticed that all of these import features are lossy. Regardless of import method:

• Contact profile pictures stored in Google Contacts are not imported. (Google exports profile photos by including a link to the photo in the CSV.)
• Birthdays without associated years (i.e., just the month and day) are sometimes not imported at all.
• Empty ('') phone numbers are sometimes added to contacts. (This issue may have been a result of me trying to fix the two issues above, and not Fastmail

natanlao

I use my Fastmail calendar to track recurring reminders, like regular maintenance, or scheduling a doctor's appointment, or requesting a credit report, etc. I create each reminder as an all-day event on a calendar only for reminders, and configure each event to send me an email reminder on the day of the event.

This approach is simple and flexible:

• Recurrence rules make it trivial to configure a task to repeat at any interval, whether it be on the nth day of the month every m months, or every other year, etc.
• With an Inbox Zero approach, reminders stay out of the way until they're relevant, and can be

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The benefits of using multi-stage Docker builds is well-known. Using multi-stage builds with a pure Perl setup is trivial -- all it involves is copying the /usr/local/lib/perl5 directory:

FROM perl:5.28 as builder
COPY cpanfile cpanfile
RUN cpanm --installdeps .

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I store my multifactor authentication recovery codes in plaintext on a flash drive. The flash drive is stored in a safe place that can only realistically be accessed by me. I periodically generate a PDF from these codes and print it.

There's a good amount of reading on ways that other people manage this:

• Best practices for storing 2FA recovery codes
• How to securely store and manage one-time backup codes for 2FA?

In choosing this approach, I considered not only the possibility that I would need to recover access to an MFA-protected account, but also the possibility

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GitHub associates a unique resource ID (or "database ID" or just "ID") with each API-accessible resource. For example, each [issue][issue-id], [repository][repository-id], and [user][user-id] has a global ID. In my limited experience with it, GitHub's REST API generally does not expose endpoints by which resources can be queried by ID (though it does have some [undocumented endpoints][repo-rest]). These resource IDs have been superseded by distinct [global node IDs][global-ids] (node_id). GitHub's GraphQL API allows retrieval of a node by its ID, called a "direct node lookup".

As you can tell, you likely don't have much reason to interact with the older

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Election	Term	Position	Function	Name	Votes	Proportion	Winner	Links	Comments/Notes
1999	1999 - 2000	Campus Office Director	Internal Affairs	Eric Gonzalez	2046	100	TRUE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Chair	President	Maria Catalina	720	28.1	FALSE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Chair	President	Dylan Smith	881	34.4	FALSE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Chair	President	Kirti Srivastava	957	37.4	TRUE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Lobby Corps Director	External Affairs	Carolyn Boyd	655	30.4	FALSE	https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/ballots-results/1999-campus-elections-results.pdf	
1999	1999 - 2000	Lobby Corps Director	External Affairs	Patrick McHugh	522	24.2	FALSE	https://deanofstu

natanlao

If, when doing something like docker-compose up, you run into an error like this:

ERROR: Named volume "server/db:/usr/share/nginx/html/db:rw" is used in service "web" but no declaration was found in the volumes section.

You're missing a leading ./, so, for example:

volumes:
 - 'server/db:/usr/share/nginx/html/db'

natanlao

Over the last few months, I've been cleaning up after myself and filing CCPA requests where I can. Here are some of the less-friendly companies that I've encountered in this process.

Sift

Signed me up for marketing emails using the email address I provided for my CCPA request.

Equifax

The worst one of them yet.

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bash-3.2$ caffeinate -d $(while true; do if ! kill -0 $PID; then sleep 5; exit; fi; done)